The relations between academic achievement in field lessons and learning styles of music teacher candidates

Abstract

For an effective educational process to know learner's learning styles is significant for the regulation of learning processes and environments. The purpose of this research is to determine the learning styles of music education students and investigate whether is a significant difference between the points of academic achievement of the music branch of courses and their learning styles. The study group was 70 students studying Balikesir University Necatibey Education Faculty Fine Arts Education Department Music Education Main Branch in 2010-2011 Spring Term. To gather data "Kolb's Learning Style Inventory-III" and transcript of students' achievement points were used. The data were analyzed and evaluated by using one-way ANOVA. Learning styles of study group was determined and put forward suggestions with assessment of results.